The Romanic Review

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A quarterly journal devoted to the study of Romance literatures. Articles cover all periods of French, Italian, and Spanish-language literature. Published by the Department of French and Romance Philology of Columbia University.

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Articles from Vol. 93, No. 4, November

When Montaigne recasts a story borrowed from antiquity or from medieval sources, he reshapes the anecdote to include many of the distinguishing characteristics of contemporary brief narrative tales, so popular in his time: concise mention of geographic...

Among other readers of Francois Rabelais, Robert Griffin and M. A. Screech have written convincingly on the subject of evil and the Devil, and especially on the moral and religious meaning of evil, as it helps to shed light on the enigmatic yet...

Difficult or ludicrous as it may seem to attempt to perform it, Un coup de des presents itself to the reader as a "partition"--a musical score. The self-effacing preface of the Cosmopolis edition explicitly invites us not only to contemplate and...

In 1623, Theophile de Viau is burned in effigy, then arrested and imprisoned on charges of lese-majeste divine. The catalyst for this persecution is a sonnet on the first page of the Parnasse Satryique, an anthology of bawdy poems. The sonnet begins:...

The cat is for Charles Baudelaire, the poet of Les Fleurs du mal, both a sign and a symbol. In Michael Riffaterre's analysis of the poem "Les Chats," he isolates both meanings, the cat as the living sign of an erotic relationship (Riffaterre 226)...